AMD Hammer waiting in wings

Ace's Hardware has discovered that the event schedule for the mid-October Microprocessor Forum has a deal of info about the architecture of the Hammer range of processors. Go to Ace's for more info on this.

There's a review of an Epox motherboard here.

Plextor has released a USB 2.0 CD-RW drive, which you can find here.

Check out this page on Silicon Investor which talks about the i845G being pulled into December. [Err, that's to do with the Pentium 4, isn't it?

News about a Gigabit network combo over at Dan's Data.

There's a picture of an ALi Pentium 4 board over at OC Workbench. [NO Pentium 4s, I said. You're fired idiot. Ed] The same site says that Abit's Nforce NV7 will be delayed from September to October.

You know what you get when you go to Overclocker.com? Answer: Dream Mates Relationship Network. Used to get totally crazy results if you mistyped anandtech.com in the old days - but fortunately that won't get you fired any more.

We were really headed for Overclockers, which looks at the difference between silver and copper, PC alchemy style.

Arstechnica has some interesting stuff about the dreadful DMCA law they have in the US. You have to skip the stuff about the Pentium 4, and go here.